What does wrawl mean?
Wrawl means (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul..
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/ɹɔːl/ · verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul..
Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.
Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.
The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.
Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.
Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.
Use wrawl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wrawl means (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul..
Common synonyms include howl, yammer, yowl.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.
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